It looks like Christmas will be arriving early, especially for frustrated Windows Live Messenger testers. With the closing of the first Windows Live Messenger 9.0 beta program in June, testers ...

Microsoft’s own Windows 8 and Windows Phone clients will continue to function, and the company says April 8th is strictly focused on phasing out the Windows Live Messenger desktop client.

In case you were one of the many Windows Live Messenger users affected by the recent outages of Microsoft's consumer IM service earlier this week, here's an update on what happened.

Windows Live Messenger 2011 requires a WindowsLive ID, but you can sign up for one with any e-mail address.Microsoft no longer requires that you sign up for a Hotmail addressor that you select a ...

Windows Live Messenger is getting the boot just months after the similarly old Hotmail, which is now Outlook.com, and while progress is obviously a good thing I can't help feeling a nostalgic pang.

Windows Live Messenger was introduced for iOS in 2010 but has since been discontinued. Messenger was a chat client that businesses could use to stay in contact with employees, clients and other ...

Windows Live Messenger (formerly named MSN Messenger) is an instant messaging client created by Microsoft to work with Windows XP (up to Wave 3), Windows Vista (up to Wave 4), Windows 7, Windows ...

Microsoft's VP of Windows Live Chris Jones explains: "Anything about information discovery, ... Although Hotmail boasts 350 million active users worldwide and Messenger has 320 million, ...

The new Live Messenger version, which can be downloaded for free from mobile.msn.com, comes in "two flavors," blogged Phil Holden, Director, Windows Live: A WAP 1.X version and a WAP 2.x version ...

If you use Windows Live Messenger on your business computer to keep in touch with your clients and employees, the Live Messenger cache is stored on your computer. The cache contains contacts and ...

The Windows Live Messenger Library is (WLML) a client-side library for building presence-enabled instant messaging web applications hosted in any domain that site visitors can use to interact with ...

Noticed first by The Next Web and Redmond Pie, looks like the Windows Live Messenger app for iPhone has just hit the App Store - but it only landed in certain regions (iTunes link), just like ...